and well known bakery goes up and well known bakery goes up in smoke next on "action news." >> songs of prayer and rejoic rejoicing and pew from philadelphia here at home to bethlehem in the holy land.

christmas 2015 is almost upon us tonight and millions sell fwlait joyful holiday for some there is that last-minute stress of finding the perfect present and/or at least whatever is left before stores shut down for the night. it is thursday night. jim is off. i'm brian taff. the big story on "action news" tonight is christmas eve one marked with temperatures again in the 70s. and it was yes another record high for philadelphia and turned holiday traditions like ice skating and all wet. trying to get to grandma's house on time and hustle and bustle with less ever a hassle than yesterday's clogged roads and airports but the stores super markets and bakeries were all the traffic was today giving goods for holiday feast and well stocked tree. "action news" reporter christie ileto standing by with last minute shoppers and chris sowers with more on the forecast and first tonight holiday heartache. 11 people killed if a rare

december tornado outbreak that swept across the south. scores more were injured in a swiingter and destroyed dozens of homes on the day before christmas. elizabeth herr has the latest. >> back it up. >> back it up. >> the tornadoes so powerful homes demolished and tractor-trailers flipped and debris tossed for miles. >> rumbling thunder and with lightning strike and then you see it that's when it was really, really intense. >> from tennessee to mississippi. >> we heard great big woo like a train and then. >> it was calm. >> it left many homeless. >> devastating. it crushes you here at christmas. >> it's very heartbreaking. i don't have the words to explain it. >> the damages are so widespread a state of emergency

has been declared in tennessee and mississippi. and state officials fwound help everyone now beginning the process of recovering and rebuilding. >> this was a well-organized effort and we will recover. >> and mother nature is still on the move. this same storm system that wreaked havoc in the south yesterday is triggering dangerous flash flooding in warts of georgia and alabama. elizabeth herr, "abc news" new york. >> meteorologist chris sowers is at the big board tonight and cecily chris tornadoes in december record temperatures in our area certainly strange day for the holidays and now you're tracking a flooding threat. >> we seem to be paying the price this evening for record high temperatures and heavy weather in parts of area this evening and national weather service issued a flood advisory until 2:15 for southern kent county as well as extreme southern portions of south jersey. southeastern portions of cumberland county and cape may county and southeastern

portions of atlantic county as well. heavy thunderstorms blossoming in the last half hour 45 minutes pushing right over the delaware bay region. look at the cloud to ground lightning strikes on christmas eve. this is something you typically see during the spring or summe summer. certainly not during the winter. look at all those reds. oranges, yellows, lots of heavy downpours just east of fortescue over the morris river if you travel delsea drive or route nine a slow go and ponding on area roads and heavy weather east of cape may pushing out to see the villa and more heavy weather developing south of dover and crossing over route 1 in between dover and milford. again this will continue over the next half hour, 45 minutes or so on top of that we have areas of sdens fog developing, atlantic city now down to three tenths of mile wilmington updated a half mile. what you can expect dense fog overnight tonight and when we come back more record highs on the way and more rain that

extends through sunday. details in a bit. >> thank you if you ever wondered what procrastination looks like head to any shopping center tonight and "action news" reporter christie ileto live at walgreens in norristown and still catering in last minute crowd there, christie. >> that's right, brian, walgreens is still on and they're on until midnight and surprisingly we see people coming in although looking for the very last minute presents. >> had to got a couple cards. got to get a couple gifts. >> meaning christmas eve is michael wright's black friday. >> tonight is a special night foremen we go shopping tonight. >> at walgreens in norristown gift cards and gift sets are best last-minute present. >> this is just extra you always think you need to get one more thing. >> at tarring net plymouth meet sgliing have to shop i have to stop you. >> anthony has a cart overflo

overflowing with toys. >> thank you. >> i shop one day a year. >> it takes me five hours. >> target stayed on until 11 and shoppers scored bic at the register. >> there's been quite a few discounts out there. >> got this on clearance and that on clearance i did did do good. >> if you came out black friday you think you would have done more. >> i know i would have. >> last minute trips are about supplies and necessities for others. >> i'm getting wrapping painer. >> while some say waiting christmas eve is still too early to shop. >> ft. stores are on christmas day i would come in early in the morning. >> i think waiting the day of is cutting it close. that's a little too close for comfort for me. if you are planning on doing that walgreens actually has regular hours on christmas day. reporting live in norristown, christie ileto "action news," brian. >> that's pushing it thanks very much. here's a gift for you last

minute or not if you give or get mobile devices like a phone or tablet we have free apz to fill them up with. event app and watch abc app all available right now. free of charge in the apple and google play stores. >> d in song and spirit in the germantown section of philadelphia. this is st. luke's episcopal church. christmas eve mass. it's more of rock and roll vibe in voorhees. "action news" was invited inside the popular family christmas candlelight service complete with video display. the church opens doors to all and visitors join kong agree gantz for music and spiritualt spiritualty. >> as people gathered in

biblical city of bethlehem there was on odd tension over christmas eve services. birth place of jesus has been clashes between israeli troops and palestinian provide testers for the last few months. far fewer christian 235eu7b8g full blocked to the city. the true way to combat violence is through jesus message of peace and love and today that city was calm. >> meanwhile pope francis will deliver traditional christmas day speech 6 a.m. our time. holy father celebrated christmas eve mass st. peters basilica vatican city tonight his only christmas eve mass for the holidays it focused on love and mercy and called on faith actual to reject scav gans and wealth and live simply with compassion. >> fire devastated home in newark, delaware earlier this week and nearly destroyed the holiday for family that lived there. we sea very nearly because a

whole lot of special people stepped up to make sure christmas still comes on time tomorrow. and "action news" reporter gray hall live in the satellite center and gray that family has a lot of reasons to smile. >> indeed, brian, this with one of the stories that demonstrates true meaning of christmas. in the middle of tragedy comes holiday miracle thanks to generous firefighters and giving community. >> not to fight a fire this time but crews are headed to deliver gifts to a family that lost nerve a house fire. >> it's been unbelievable people from mar marn, delaware and pennsylvania came together. >> firefighters fought flames in newark, delaware. that same group came together to bring christmas cheer. fire fight areas long with the community held a donation drive to help the family. >> out pouring from the community has been believable we've gotten brand new bicycles shoes all the way down to

toiletryes. >> while the loss is devr stating they're overwhelmed by all they're receiveing. this is overwhelming to be the one on the receiving end. but sometimes you have to swallow that and say thank you. and i rally appreciate that. from the depth of my heart. >> it was a christmas miracle and packages seemed to be never ending for a family used to giving the tables were now turned. >> the community comes together like this, and people give of them saevrl and their time and take away from their family and everything elimination that's the true meaning of christmas. >> a fire created a holiday this family will never forget. not just for what think lost but for the christmas cheer they received. >> words cannot express how i feel for my family because we now have a christmas. >> despite the loss the most important thing is no one was hurt and entire family will be home for christmas. liver tonight in the satellite center gray hall, "channel 6

action news," brian. >> great ending to otherwise awful story, thank you. >> dozens of volunteer fireist fighters gave up top battle this blaze in newcastle. planes erupted kirkwood highway 6:00 just about ab hour after it closed. the deep seated fire tougher to get to. two firefighters treat ford heat exhaustion and we're toll the damage is extensive. >> and a car crash claimed a nrivr cherry hill new jersey tonight along route 70 action happened in the eastbound lanes cup board boulevard the driver lost control and hit a pole and known else was involved and the road was shut down for 1 hour and police investigated. >> police looking for a man that slashed tires on 16 vehicles next week in philadelphia's lawndale boulevard. slashing tires while walking

dog 7 vehicles hit helerman street and six others vandalized shellborn street and three more targeted on 6400 block of oakly street. if you have any information about this crime please call philadelphia police pennsylvania governor tom wolf will wait to see what you do with the budget bill. and they then left for the holidays. the governor could okay, veto, eliminate individual spending lines and threat become law without his signature. the measure does not fund colleges and university or reimburse school districts across the state that have borrowed money just to keep their doors on. >> and still to come on "action news" tonight a philadelphia company valued at nearly a billion dollars is in a major sale tonight and scared shoppers go running for cover after another shooting inside a mall. we'll explain what happened here. plus reports of controversial

plan to round up illegal immigrants in coming year narrow bama administration, chris. >> flood advisories extended north ward to portions of south jersey. heavy thunderstorms rumbling through coming up i'll take a closer look adam double scan live on the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. >> desean jackson return to the linc and stand in the way of eagles playoff chances. linc and stand in the way of eagles playoff chances. when "action news" continues. ♪ (vo) some call it giving back. we call it share the love. during our share the love event, get a new subaru,

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>> an officer off duty -- >> the officer fired killing the gunman. >> this is not random act of violence this is something that happened between two parties beefing back and forth and happened north lake mall. this was absolutely not an

active sheert situation. >> no officers were hurt but it's not certain if anyone was hit with the initial shots. investigate towards say they found multiple weapons at the scene. >> in chicago protesters calling for resignation of mayor rahm emanuel trying disrupt holiday shop,. they briefly dropped store entrance. today's demonstrations were latest since release of police dashcam video showing officer fatally shooting laquan mcdonald. >> pub licked reports say u.s. is planning immigration raids early next year to deport adults and children who have been ordered deported. the operation could begin as early as next month and could affect hundreds of immigrants or more. many need violence in central america [ shots ].

>> bat toll retake romadi from islamic state. they are battling isis with assistance of american air coalition overhead. the advance has to be slow and steady because militants are using suicide bombers, snipers and bobby trapped homes. >> americans visiting china this christmas are warned of potential threat in beijing. chinese police tight end security around a bar and an area with western tourists the american, british french and other embassies say they have gotten information of a possible threat around or on christmas day and urged citizens to be vij sglant many, moe and jack are popular fellows. bidding roll-over pep boys has a winner. carl icon have been battling back and forth. pep boys recommended

shareholders accept the newest bid from bridgestone. . the deal would be worth $947 million . >> homeowners can breathe a sigh of relief tonight even though the federal reserve rate raised interest rates for the first time in years and mortgage rates have not risen but gone down according to first report since raid hike. freddie mack says the afternoon mortgage doypd 3.96% and it's reminder the fed has only indirect affect on long-term mortgages. >> since we're not getting a white christmas here we wanted to show you what that might look like. the heartland getting hit hard tonight. home a ha, nebraska, six inches of freshly fallen flakes and parts of northern california winter storm warning and national weather says they could get up to a foot and a half of snow there by tomorrow morning. but, you have a mental snapshot of that we will not see it any

time soon. >> no, no, it's almost spring like out there. and it's kind of a good thing we're not seeing snow. with all the rain over the last few days if it would have been snow it would be over 30". >> oh, my goodness. >> no one would go anywhere. >> let's get you outside and show what you is going on this evening. heavy weather developed across portions of douming jersey and delaware and within the last hor a broken line of thunderstorms developed and downpours within these storms are pretty intense. rainfall rates over an inch an hour in some sports and national weather service issued flood advisory till 2:15 southern kent county and cumberland, cape may and atlantic county in new jersey all because of heavy cluster of thunderstorms developed. 24 lightning strikes being reported in the last 15 minutes. heavy weather across the wild woods and stone harbor and avalon anda sea isle city reporting heavy rain. if you valve route 9 cape may up to atlantic city you see poppeding on roadways. and in delaware kent county as

well as northern sussex county traveling route 1 same thing heavy weather reported right now. here's the movement. everything moving south west to northeast into new jersey and heavy thunderstorms nothing severe for the most part it's ever hade rains and not much in the way of winds are we seeing anything here. again to see this christmas eve this time of year is mind boggling this is kind of weather you typically see during june, jewel, august. look at eyes. high temperature 4th of july 76 today we reached 71. trenton 71. wilmington 71. allentown 71. lancaster 69. each and every one record eyes for the day philadelphia the high was 64. we smashed that and still pretty much in record territory now at least the old record at this hour. allentown 51. reading 54. lancaster 57 and poconos 49. cooler up here and cold front in the process of pushing through and that will drop the temperatures down late tomorrow night into saturday and visibility is also issue for

south jersey and delaware and down to three tenths of mile in wilmington tone and three miles in millville and half mile trenton and three tenths atlantic city at the airport and if you're traveling across delaware everybody across the delaware river is in the clear at this point. and south jersey take it slow visibility is greatly reduced and where you are paging up heavier thunderstorms seeing a lot of poppeding on roadways. future tracker 6 that line of thunderstorms begins to diminish overnight. and cloudy conditions. areas of fog. and later in the afternoon you expect rain to develop and even though models not showing it south jersey and delaware all coming from south to north and expect to be see wet weather after 4 or 5:00 in the afternoon seen over the next couple hours headed to midnight mass temperatures steady in the 60s. north and west of philadelphia heavier thunderstorms possible came may and atlantic county

and mostly cloudy, rain developing late and look at temperatures. 67 by 1bg. we're shooting for a high an unheard of high christmas day of 70. that would be record high if we hit that. cooler saturday, 56. 72 and then seasonable monday high of 45. that's going to be four record highs potentially in five days. >> yeah. >> for philadelphia. >> end of december wild. >> thank you my friend. >> suddenly santa in the sky tonight and asteroid 3600 feet long flying by earth in fact it may be doing it right now. nasa did not have exact time. but astronomers released grainy radar images of the long and lien space rock. nasa predicts christmas eve asteroid will make close aeingt approach distance 6.8 million miles from earth and will be back in 20 18 nearly four times closer. >> well the other fly by we mentioned tonight far more

important. santa and slay. as for the past 60 years norad is tracking jolly old st. nick as he approaches north american airspace and spotted him delivering presents for good boys and girls across the world and last check 5.2 mill billion presents delivered. this say live look at the radar image of where he is right now last seen in toronto canada making his way south and you know what that means. we're next. military officials are remin reminding kids awake he's only making landings at homes where little ones have gone to sleep. making landings at homes where little ones have gone to sleep. so, kids, get to bed.

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disbeliev >> jeff skversky here with sports tonight. >> getting red of red skindz and going to gaint's game. will desean jackson be the grinch that stole christmas from the eagles. redskins receiver has been a mean one a grim monster against the former team and his heart is not in the hole when it comes to chip kelly that let minimum go. looking to play mr. grinch beating eagles and eliminating them from playoff contention. for now stand there on christmas eve state hating the whos and trying to make everyone at the linc cry boo hoo. >> it's not the first time i played them and won't be the last i'm excited about the opportunity to have and go back to philly and play in front of a lot of fans that you know some light me and some prob a don't regardless of the case.

>> sixers coach brett brown will have a new toy or the tree christmas morning they get ish smith in trade from new orleans in exchange for two second round draft picks. smith played 25 games for sixer last year before they let him go to make room on roster they cut tony wroton who returned from knee injury. still to come in sports a visit from santa jaws. eagles rendition of was the night before christmas you will eagles rendition of was the night before christmas you will not want to miss ♪

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>> it may take a christmas miracle toll make the playoffs. eagles 6-8 with two games to go taken don't have a merry feeling about the eagles here she espn sant-jaws to put you in the playoff spirit.

>> was the might before christmas and all through the league certain puzzled who will win the nfc east. some thinking skins and desean will find magic and others say eli and big blue it's not time to panic. ah, but i, jaws from the north pole, the wise and knowing sant jaws has the answer that will have eagles fans flow glowing. this week the birds getting gifts my sleigh and will sweep by the redskins it's an eagles win i dare to say and so it comes down to the new york football giants a week 17 finale the outcome i say will be joyous not scary. the bird will win and division is theirs so hey everyone, on to the playoffs, yes, that's what i see, a holiday

prediction, ah, that will fill us with glee. on bradford, on jenkins, on peters and sproles and on barwinn and matthews, beat all of our foes and the birds give us hope and continue to fight, ah, ho-ho-ho, and a merry christmas to all, and to all a ah, ho-ho-ho, and a merry christmas to all, and to all a good night. >> santa jaws. >> and to good nights on the eagles i think not. he still believes. >> we must still believe. >> thanks. >> all right. >> "jimmy kimmel live" next on channel 6 followed by "nightline" "action news" back tomorrow night at 11:00. now for jeff skversky, chris sowers, cecily tynan and ducis rodgers and jim gardner the entire "action news" team i'm brian taff. merry chris noose all and to christmas to all and to all a merry chris noose all and to christmas to all and to all a good

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